Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-07

the Old one, to cost $50, 600, Will propaDly
be built, with the iron costing
$4,000. The money loss to the
road from the interruption to travel
will be large. The work of recovering
the wrecksge and bodies is being pushed
vigorously. All day the ruins have been
minutely searched and probably all have
been recovered that can be. The iron
work of the cars has all been pulled over
and cleared away. The total number of
bodies recovered to-day was five, one
woman and four men. Drs- Grinnell
and Bingham of Burlington have to-day
thoroughly examined the tharred re-
mains of the victims thus far recovered
for the purpose of ascertain'ng the num-
Der. They report it TO be up 20 this
morning just twenty-seven, which with
the five found to-day makes thirty-tWo
recovered thus fer. This statement
is verified by Lieutenant Fuller.
Mr.. Fuller is doing everything in his power
for all the sufferers. He has been in
strumental in establishing a bureau of
information. All communications re-
garding passengers should be addressed
II. T. Tanker, station agent, White River
junction. Mr. Fuller also indorses the
statement that from all information at
this time from connecting road
ticket agents and survivors of the disaster,
it is believed the total number of souls On
board the Inflated train, including the
train men, was eighty-one. OF these,
thi1ty-two are accounted for as above,
and thirty-siX are in care of the surgeons.
One died to-day, and nine left on the
same train with the injured, ,leav-
ing four unaccounted for. 1t is
understood there were some children
without tickets, SO the above figures may
be slightly changed. Every article of
clothing, scrap of paper and other things
found are being carefully saved for the
purpose of Identification, and parties hay
ing friends unaccounted for will be afford
ed every means or clue. The best of
police protection has been given
from the first. Sore of the wreck has
been cleared off, aud the sheriff, assisted
by numerous special deputies, permits
only the workmen and interested parties
inside. 1t is believed 50 far that no
thieving has occurred.
Little idea can be formed of
the difficulties in the way of
obtaining a report Of the accident
that would give the public correct idea
of the condition of things. Nthe time OF
the accident and ever since. the therm0m
eter has registered from to 10 below
zero. The suffering from the cold was
intense. There are only two Or three
farm houses within two miles of the
wreck, and these are filed with wounded.
Others are scattered along for
three or four miles with no
means of communication except by train.
All the railroad officials are on the ground
and everything possible is being done for
the wounded and dead. Hundreds OF
people searching for their friends are here
and nearly every newspaper in
New England has reporter
at the scene of the wreck. Work
was suspended at dark last night owing
to the severity Of the weather, but was
resumed this morning. The water in
White river at the place of the accident
is not more than live or six feet deep,
with but little current, and the
ice is perhaps fourteen inches
thick. The falling of the cars upon it and
the heat of the fire melted the ice clean,
but little of the personal effects of the
passengers being left to reveal the identity
of their owners. A comparison of tickets
taken up by the conductors of in
coming trains and connecting trains
largely reduces the number of
persons on the train. Conductor Bean
of the Boston and Lowell Railway
gives the exact number of tickets taken
up for points beyond where the accident
occurred as thirtY-siX, of which sixteen
were collected in the car Pilgrim, for
Boston. Conductor Barrett of the Con-
necticut River Railroad counts his as
NJ hoir in,
the car st. Adams, from Spring
field. This leaves only a very
few who probably came ever
the Passumwac, and these starting from
here, probably not exceeding ten in all,
besides the railroad men who were on
the train. Of these thirty are accounted
for as among the wounded, and the num-
Der of those in the smoker is varlously
estimated at from forty to fifty.
Charles II. Pierce of this place,
engineer of the wrecked train, is
about thirty-eight years old. He
has been employed on the road as
engineer for fourteen years, and is con-
sidered one of the compGny's most faith
faithful employees. All accounts agree
with his statement that although the train
was about an hour late it had been run
ming perhaps thirty miles an hour, yet
at the time of the accident he
had slowed up to about fifteen
or twenty miles an hour, as is
the usual custom in crossing long bridges.
No blame whatever is attached TO him,
and after the accident both he and Fire
man Thresher of st. Adams rendered
heroic and efficient aid in rescaing the
passengers. Mr.. Pierce proceeded to St.
Adams with his engine and the rest of the
train after all had been done that could
be and plenty o. help had arrived. He is
now at St. Adams in an exhausted condi-
ton.
In room 50 at the Junction house is
Andrew Wheeler, about thirty-twe years
old, with bad cut over his eyes, bruised
all over and somewhat burned, but not
fatally hurt. He is an employe OF the
Derby house at Fitchburg, and was
EN- route to Montreal on the excursion.
He was in the first passenger
car and thinks there were about twenty
five others there. He remembers nothing
after the crash until the fire came near
and help from the outside released his
foot, which was under the wreck, Just in
time to prevent serious burning. He has
no knowledge as to the circumstances OF
the wreck and did not suffer seriously |
from cold